[MPlayer-DOCS] Improvement to README for 64 bit essentials

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Oct 22 00:11:52 CEST 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:19:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Knauf wrote:
> 
> I suggest an improvement to the file "README", section "STEP1: 
> Installing Binary Codecs".
> Add something like this:
> "For 64 bit linux: first place the 32 bit essentials in the binary codes 
> directory, then replace the 32 bit libraries with the 64 bit versions 
> from the 64 bit essentials package."
> 
> This small hint might have prevented a silly noob like me from compiling 
> a 32 bit MPlayer, because a real media file caused a "wrong ELF32_CLASS" 
> error in a 32 bit codec ;-).

I cannot make heads or tails of your explanation.

Diego



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